👏New #publication in American Journal of Public Health from CDE affiliates Jenny Higgins and @lsenderowicz.bsky.social ➡️“A Measure Aligned With Reproductive Justice, Human Rights, and Sexual Well-Being…? Yes Please, and Here’s Why” doi.org/10.2105/AJPH...

WE'RE HIRING! The Gender & Women's Studies Dept at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a TT professor of GENDER AND AGING I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions Please share widely!

📢 An @amjpublichealth.bsky.social editorial from CORE scholars Jenny Higgins, @lsenderowicz.bsky.social and Diana Carvajal celebrates how a new measure of sexual and reproductive wellbeing from Christine Dehlendorf and team could improve equity and science. ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/...

So excited that the #PAA2026 call includes a dedicated session on: **Heterodox, Feminist, and Critical Perspectives on Demography** Get your submissions ready for session 917 and please share widely!!

CALLING ALL DEMOGRAPHERS/POPULATION SCIENTISTS I am thrilled to share that the #PAA2026 call for papers is now out and includes a dedicated session on: **Heterodox, Feminist, and Critical Perspectives on Demography** It's session 917 so get your submissions ready and share widely!!

In the introduction to the Special Issue on Global Reproductive Justice @rishie.bsky.social‬, @lsenderowicz.bsky.social & Wendy Sigle outline how the RJ framework was developed and how it extends how reproductive rights are approached by feminist scholars and activists. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/3mxp4a78

📢Now in Feminist Economics: "A Special Issue on Global Reproductive Justice and Feminist Economics" edited by @rishie.bsky.social, @lsenderowicz.bsky.social & Wendy Sigle. 🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfec20/31/1 🎥Fireside Chat: tinyurl.com/zm7mrk9u We'll feature key articles over the next weeks

Journalists often ask for my thoughts on the contemporary US pronatalist movement. My assessment is based on my expertise and training as a social demographer, and my own research on childbearing behaviors at the individual and aggregate levels. Strap in, b/c I've got a lot to say. 1/

I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/

I remain sceptical of abortion decrim through carceral frameworks that expand police powers, particularly when we see increasing police guidance (governance!) on abortion. I don’t see how we achieve reproductive freedom by tying ourselves to these logics. These, to me, aren’t wise compromises.

Making graduate school harder to access is part of a very deliberate strategy to raise the “married birth rate” The idea is that making higher ed scarcer will prevent women from wasting prime fertile years on education and other useless pursuits Nightmare fuel: www.heritage.org/education/re...

1/ Is population collapsing? It felt like time to process some of my #demography feelings about recent #population panic. While demographers don't endorse generational labels (ahem @philipncohen.com),for this GenXer there will always be Princess Bride memes. open.substack.com/pub/jenndowd...?

Growing up means realizing that Kevin, not Nick or Brian, is actually the best Backstreet Boy

🌍New #publication in BMJ Journals from CDE affiliate Leigh Senderowicz & colleagues ➡️ “Measuring misaligned contraceptive use among reproductive-aged women in Kisumu, Kenya: a cross-sectional, population-based study” pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Here's the link to listen: www.npr.org/2025/04/30/n...

Is RFK going to somehow negatively polarize me into becoming a fan of big pharma

We couldn't have known when we started this paper that the data source it relies on would be obliterated by the time it came out I think this paper showcases what the DHS does best -- understanding big trends across time and space 1/4

In “Contraceptive Use & Discontinuation,” C. Busse, K. Tumlinson & @lsenderowicz.bsky.social describe how “adolescent women have distinct contraceptive dynamics, method mix & reasons for discontinuation." @uncpopcenter.bsky.social @uncpublichealth.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

I will be in conversation with two very brilliant minds about the ways that feminist economics (and positivist research frameworks, more generally) can engage with the Reproductive Justice framework. Please join us!!

Wendy Sigle, @lsenderowicz.bsky.social & I will be in conversation with Mary Borrowman (CGD) about the Si, and why we think this is a critical moment for engaging with these questions of FE & RJ. Date: 1st April 2025, 1500-1615 (UK) Spanish interpretation available. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Special Issue on "Global Reproductive Justice and Feminist Economics" is IN PRESS! I learnt so much (as a non-economist, as a scholar) from our incredible contributors & from my enormously talented co-guest editors @lsenderowicz.bsky.social & Prof Sigle (LSE). 🧵1/

The idea seems to be that if you just keep pointing out the hypocrisy, eventually it’ll do something?

We have a new special issue focusing on global reproductive justice We want to use this issue to challenge feminist economists & other scholars to engage seriously with the possibilities and rigors of the RJ framework I wish the topic weren’t quite so timely… www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Scientists need to realize this list will grow. It used to be abortion and climate change. Staying quiet won’t keep your area off lists like this.

i need less decorum and more “home game in philadelphia” when it comes to the energy in the room.

Telling MAGA there are better ways to raise birthrates is exactly what no one should do www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Every once in while I'm reminded that this dystopian Disney short on population control from 1968 exists www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Dk...

If you’ve been looking for a non-shitty, non-misogynist take on pronatalism from actual experts, look no further! (Taking part in this webinar is one of my favorite things that I’ve done all year)

Pronatalism is a classic population panic, based on regressive ideas and bad demography. In this webinar, three demographers (@lesja.bsky.social @lsenderowicz.bsky.social and me) break it down. Passcode: 60N#t1y

Is anyone writing about the defunding of USAID/UNFPA other global SRH orgs in a way that challenges global health white savior myths? Devt orgs=good or devt orgs=bad isn’t cutting it and I’d love something to assign to my students

I've been as critical of the DHS as anybody, but the loss of these data and the cruelty with which these actions are taken makes my blood run cold

My new substack on the sex and gender Executive Order is out. #science #transrights #lgbtqstem #feministsky sterlinga.substack.com/p/biological...

A perfect example of how we can ONLY understand "pronatalism" in the context of eugenics. There's no other way to make sense of this.

I'm quoted in an article on pronatalism in the New Yorker & while I'm happy with my quote I wish the piece did more to question very premise of the "debate" Because the question isn't really pro or antinatalism but rather pronatalism for whom and antinatalism for whom? And there, RJ has answers

It's me. Hi. I'm the contemptuous harpy, it's me.

Reading The Anti-Politics Machine in college was one of the most impactful things I've ever done stanforddaily.com/2025/02/19/j...

‼️Published TODAY from @lsenderowicz.bsky.social & @rishie.bsky.social "Thirty years of ‘strange bedmates’: The ICPD and the nexus of population control, feminism, and family planning" in @tandfonline.bsky.social ➡️View a key figure & read the full article below: doi.org/10.1080/0032...

New article from two of my favorite thinkers in this area, @lsenderowicz.bsky.social and @rishie.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I can *finally* cross this paper off my to-do list. doi.org/10.1080/0032... i still pinch myself that @lsenderowicz.bsky.social trusted a virtual (!) stranger with her deep thinking & work on this. she has an excellent thread on the backstory to this paper: bsky.app/profile/lsen... 1/12

A paper I've been working on for quite literally 10 years just came out It's a shitty time, for sure, but this paper is still cool and good, and I still want to you tell you all about it So gather 'round, folks, and hear the story of the 10 year paper! 1/n www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The UW Collaborative for Reproductive Equity (CORE) is hiring a research coordinator! More here: core.wisc.edu/wp-content/u...

A while ago, on the other site, I posted that we had discovered some coding errors on our piece published in PDR on unmet need for contraception I’m so happy that the erratum has now been formally published & urge everyone to utilize these updated results: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Reading an article by Alan Guttmacher (yes, that Guttmacher) where he lists the four possible indications for sterilization: "First of all, eugenic; second, therapeutic; third, socio-economic; and fourth, population control." Whoopsie... link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

“Absent convincing evidence of a fertility crisis in the country, it appears that the prominence of pronatalism in the United States has more to do with its symbolic value in appealing to a species of conservative identity politics than in responding to a real problem”

The coolest postdoc I know is now accepting applications: 🧪🔬THE WITTIG POSTDOC IN FEMINIST BIOLOGY🧪🔬 Our interdisciplinary program @ UW Madison seeks to train the next generation of feminist scientists/scholars of science Please share widely and read more here: crgw.gws.wisc.edu/scholarships...

Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.

It’s also a great illustration of “MD brain” and why having an MD is insufficient (and unnecessary, though sometimes beneficial) for doing good public health policy.

Is there a way to imagine engaging people politically beyond “give us money” and “vote”?

What angers me about much of the reporting is it's framed as "choosing to have a hysterectomy" - wtaf? more reporting from India: Purnima Sah, BehanBox (2022): shorturl.at/9AcSu Patralekha Chatterjee, the Lacent (2019): shorturl.at/inhVo Devyani Nighoskar, Al Jazeera (2019): shorturl.at/U8TFb 1/

I've been reading more about the hysterectomies among women in Maharashtra for a piece I'm writing and cannot think of a more upsetting example of reproductive oppression at the intersections of gender, capitalism & coloniality Without their periods, the plantations can extract more labor from them